UNITED STATES
FDA launches new centre for tobacco products

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched its new Center for Tobacco Products which will oversee the implementation of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act signed by President Obama in June 2009.

The FDA’s responsibilities under the law include setting performance standards, reviewing premarket applications for new and modified risk tobacco products, and establishing and enforcing advertising and promotion restrictions. Lawrence Deyton, an expert on veterans’ health issues, public health, tobacco use, and a clinical professor of medicine and health policy at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, will serve as the centre’s first director. The FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, located on the FDA’s White Oak Campus in Silver Spring, Maryland, will use the best available science to guide the development and implementation of effective public health strategies to reduce the burden of illness and death caused by tobacco products, FDA says. To implement the programme, the FDA will start with USD 5 million from the fiscal year 2009 budget to establish the necessary administrative functions for the centre. As set forth in the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, funding for the centre and other activities related to the regulation of tobacco will come from user fees paid by manufacturers and importers of tobacco products. (ci)

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